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August 24, 2018

There’s something incredibly powerful about education. As Nelson Mandela once said, “education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” There exists ambiguity and apathy within the bureaucratic education systems that exist today, but it goes without saying that the concept of education in general remains as powerful as it

May 26, 2018

What do you consider the most influential books in history? As simple as that question may sound, it can be a rather controversial one. Are you interested in the sciences, the humanities, or a mixture of both? Personally, good philosophic or historical reads trump any other – although I do enjoy the occasional science fiction novel

April 4, 2018

A major problem is that many people don’t have the time to digest long-winded articles anymore. In a world where every pocket has the potential to be filled with a digital square that has access to all of the information and misinformation across the globe, people find it hard to digest information that isn’t spoon-fed

March 18, 2018

During the holiday season of 1999, right smack dab in the middle of the dot com bubble, a well-known retail store nearly crashed and burned, learning a very important turn-of-the-century lesson in business. Just in time for the holidays, popular retailer Toys ‘R Us opened their primitive website, which just could not stand against the

February 28, 2018

This post is an article review of “Shipwrecked in the Atlantic World: Reevaluating Jonathan Dickinson’s Interactions with Native Peoples Along Florida’s Southeastern Coast” by Jason Daniels, which was published in the Spring 2013 (Vol. 91, No. 4) edition of the Florida Historical Quarterly. You can click here for a direct link to the article on

February 3, 2018

Robin Sutton Harris was born on October 27th, 1919 in Toronto, Ontario. In 1941, Harris received his BA in English Language and Literature from honor courses within the University of Toronto’s English department. After a brief period of war service, he found himself teaching at the elementary school level for about a year before applying

January 28, 2018

J. L. Granatstein, a renowned and rather prolific Canadian historian with focuses in both political and military history, was born in Toronto, Canada on May 21st, 1939 to Polish immigrants. He received his BA from the Royal Military College in 1959, his MA from the University of Toronto in 1962, and his PhD from Duke

January 13, 2018

Trump makes rather embarrassing international headlines yet again with his racist remarks against immigrants who come from “shithole” nations in Africa and the Caribbean. America was based on the idea of diversity, a country that birthed itself from a revolutionary concept that swept the late 18th century and led to the “democratic” so-called American values

January 1, 2018

Each and every New Year’s Eve, people from all across the world celebrate the upcoming New Year by congregating in urbanized areas like New York’s Time Square. Close to one million people packed themselves into the Times Square celebration to welcome the arrival of 2018. Such a dense population of people would already leave behind a

Good morning! Welcome to 2018! Your brand new, exciting experience that welcomes you to being one Gregorian year closer to the inevitable heat death of the universe! Since 2013, my “New Years Resolution” has been a single word each and every year. I somewhat attempt to “base” my year’s experience and events on that single